Mangareva
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Mangareva is the central and largest island of the Gambier Islands in French Polynesia. It is surrounded by smaller islands: Taravai in the southwest, Aukena and Akamaru in the southeast, and islands
NASA picture of Mangareva Island
Mangareva Island, view from the Motu Totegegie
Mt. Duff, 370 m (1,200 ft), the only volcanic remnant of all the original volcanoes which made up the Tuamotu archipelago
St Michael's Cathedral on Mangareva island
Pitcairn Islands
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The Pitcairn Islands, officially Pitcairn, Henderson, Ducie and Oeno Islands, are a group of four volcanic islands in the southern Pacific Ocean that form the sole British Overseas Territory in the Pa
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…first settled by Polynesians in the first millennium CE. While carbon dating has so far only dated settlements to 1160–1220, there is evidence from the Pitcairn Islands of trade with Mangareva from 1000 CE, and it is likely that settlement dates to around 800 CE. The island was once heavily forested and supported a…
Pitcairn landing
The mutineers turning Bligh and some of the officers and crew adrift from HMS Bounty on 29 April 1789.
Adamstown, the only settlement on the Islands